President Obama Born, Raised in the Briar Patch

At least, that’s what The Economist reckons, in regard to delaying immigration reform until an election year –

The conventional wisdom now seems to be that Mr Obama is hesitating to go ahead with a “controversial”, “polarising” bill that will doubtless engender “fierce opposition”. As Brer Rabbit would say, please, don’t throw me in that briar patch!

So if President Obama is playing the role of Brer Rabbit, what does that make Fox News?

I’d also like to point out that the title of this post has nothing to do with birth certificates.  I am certain there are briar patches in Hawaii.

For more context, here’s one of our storytellers, Donald Griffin, telling the famous story about Brer Rabbit, the Tar-Baby, and the Briar Patch.

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story

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